cATALAN iNDEPENDENCE

The CUP is a radical new assembly based far-left party in Catalunya which grew from the 15m Take The Streets movement and retains anarchist principles, except for being in favour of making a political party.

In the recent Catalan elections CUP got 10 seats and the balance of power to give an absolute majority to the coalition for Catalan Independence.

But CUP refused to cooperate if the leader was Artur Más, ex rightwing president who presided over cuts, repression and corruption.

Under extreme pressure to save the Independence Process a general assembly was called last week and incredibly the 3rd vote TIED.. with 1515 votes in favour and 1515 votes against. Continue reading “Assembly Party ‘CUP’pulls plug on Catalan Parliament.. and maybe PP in Madrid”

Its the moment of truth for the 9N Catalan ‘referendum’, now called the ‘consultation’.

The far-right Spanish government are playing the ”fascist card”, whipping up a dangerous frenzy of false nationalism to escape the avalanche of corruption cases being revealed daily against their top members.

WILL THEY USE MILTARY POLICE AGAINST 1000s POLLING STATIONS? — WILL THEY USE MILITARY POLICE AGAINST 1000s OF POLLING STATIONS?

The right-wing ”Spanish Constitutional Court” is about to ban it for the 2nd time (on orders from their political paymasters).

Will the Catalan government obey and order their own Catalan police, the Mossos, to attack the 40,000 volunteers who are all organized down to the the last detail and ready to go next Sunday?

If not will the corrupt and inept far Spanish PP government carry out its threat to arrest and jail the Catalan leaders, as happened so many times under the fascist dictatorship? Their direct predecessors even executed one legally elected Catalan president, LluisCompanys, along with tens of thousands of Catalan republicans, and banned the Catalan language from schools for 40 years, etc.

Continue reading “9-N. Will Spanish forces attack Catalan ‘referendum’?”